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1) Mr First #0
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Mr. First, eternal protector of mankind, faces his greatest enemy in Mr. First #0. In the First Age, an era of monsters and gods, Daryan Adan was created first of all mankind. Now he fights a losing battle for the Children of Light against the forces of shadow and chaos. Will the abomination Aram Syn and his dark horde make Mr. First's first war... his last?
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Imagine a world in which the Axis forces of World War II suddenly were propelled to victory over the Allies... prompted by aid from the ancient gods of Norse mythology! Welcome to the alternate reality of The Life Eaters, written by award-winning author David Brin with lush painted art by Scott Hampton.
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
After losing their dad, 12-year-old Cloudia and her kid sister Rex are taken on a road trip by their mother, who is having a hard time dealing with the stress of sudden single-motherhood. When their car is blasted off the road by a strange bolt from the sky, the kids find themselves with strange abilities--Cloudia has super strength, and Rex is . . . a woolly rhino. It seems they've been possessed by two twin gods, Thanatos and Hypnos, who are fleeing...
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Cloudia and Rex's mother discovers a power of her own--the power to travel through time. After almost being trapped in the beautiful moments she had with her husband before he passed, she realizes that she has to stay in the moment if she wants to save her little girls . . .
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A lushly rendered supernatural fantasy that follows two girls and their mother who find themselves in the middle of a vast, supernatural exodus. On their journey Cloudia is bestowed the powers of hundreds of different gods, but even those don't help her come to terms with the death of her father.
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Young Cloudia, now full of fugitive gods fleeing the High Waveform dominating their homeplane, searches for her mother and sister, Rex, while learning the extent of her new abilities. Hot on her trail is Tohil, the warrior god intent on stopping her before she finds the heart of the World Tree.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
New Problem, Old Solution
If you are not good enough for Heaven, or bad enough for Hell, where do you go? The Time Corps is where those undetermined souls go before their final destination, and their new job will be to help preserve the Time Line. History must be preserved lest the Law of Unintended Consequences be unleashed. Can they stop a relentless young man driven mad by love to revise history no matter what?
10) Time Corps #3
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Time is Not on Our Side
If you are not good enough for Heaven, or bad enough for Hell, where do you go? The new team at the Time Corps Venice Beach sub-station barely has any time to settle in when they get their next assignment -- to chase down a wayward Spartan hoplite in full battle array.
11) Time Corps #8
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The Die is Cast
The glitch ridden pursuit of the infected wanderer from the Great Depression's hobo jungles continues on a packed Venice Beach boardwalk. Meanwhile, the intrigues both within the Celestial Bureaucracy and in the future continue!
12) Time Corps #7
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Contractual Obligations
The crew of the Venice Beach sub-station are given a difficult new assignment: chase down a tough hobo from Depression era America while preventing him from infecting a young girl fated to do great things. Meanwhile, various machinations continue apace!
13) Time Corps #2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Into the Deep End
If you are not good enough for Heaven, or bad enough for Hell, where do you go? The Time Corps is where those undetermined souls go before their final destination, and their new job will be to help preserve the Time Line. History must be preserved lest the Law of Unintended Consequences be unleashed.
Can they stop a relentless young man driven mad by love to revise history no matter what?
14) Time Corps #4
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Thermoplyae
As the chase for the wayward Spartan hoplite gets more serious, intrigue moves along in both the future and the Celestial Bureaucracy home office.
15) Nox #2
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Mapped to Jospeh Campbell's Hero Cycle, Shon C. Bury's Nox is a self-aware low fantasy populated equally by mystical gurus, Everyman characters, and dark forces bent on tipping our mundane world into shadows. Nox is as influenced by Robert Graves' White Goddess and Jeremy Narby's Cosmic Serpent as Joseph Campell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Come join us on this epic road trip to end all epic road trips.
16) Nox #1
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Mapped to Jospeh Campbell's Hero Cycle, Shon C. Bury's Nox is a self-aware low fantasy populated equally by mystical gurus, Everyman characters, and dark forces bent on tipping our mundane world into shadows. Nox is as influenced by Robert Graves' White Goddess and Jeremy Narby's Cosmic Serpent as Joseph Campell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Come join us on this epic road trip to end all epic road trips.
17) Nox #5
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Mapped to Jospeh Campbell's Hero Cycle, Shon C. Bury's Nox is a self-aware low fantasy populated equally by mystical gurus, Everyman characters, and dark forces bent on tipping our mundane world into shadows. Nox is as influenced by Robert Graves' White Goddess and Jeremy Narby's Cosmic Serpent as Joseph Campell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Come join us on this epic road trip to end all epic road trips.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A tale packed with adventure, The Book of Life celebrates the power of friendship and family, and the courage to follow your dreams.
To determine whether the heart of humankind is pure and good, two godlike beings engage in an otherworldly wager during Mexico's annual Day of the Dead celebration. They tether two friends, Manolo and Joaquin, into vying for the heart of the beautiful and fiercely independent Maria, with comical and sometimes dangerous...
19) Nox #4
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Mapped to Jospeh Campbell's Hero Cycle, Shon C. Bury's Nox is a self-aware low fantasy populated equally by mystical gurus, Everyman characters, and dark forces bent on tipping our mundane world into shadows. Nox is as influenced by Robert Graves' White Goddess and Jeremy Narby's Cosmic Serpent as Joseph Campell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Come join us on this epic road trip to end all epic road trips.
20) Nox #3
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Mapped to Jospeh Campbell's Hero Cycle, Shon C. Bury's Nox is a self-aware low fantasy populated equally by mystical gurus, Everyman characters, and dark forces bent on tipping our mundane world into shadows. Nox is as influenced by Robert Graves' White Goddess and Jeremy Narby's Cosmic Serpent as Joseph Campell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Come join us on this epic road trip to end all epic road trips.
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